Patch "ip6_gre: remove the incorrect mtu limit for ipgre tap" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

Patch "ip6_gre: remove the incorrect mtu limit for ipgre tap" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ip6_gre: remove the incorrect mtu limit for ipgre tap

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     ip6_gre-remove-the-incorrect-mtu-limit-for-ipgre-tap.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Wed Feb 28 16:23:28 CET 2018
From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 14:25:09 +0800
Subject: ip6_gre: remove the incorrect mtu limit for ipgre tap

From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>


[ Upstream commit 2c52129a7d74d017320804c6928de770815c5f4a ]

The same fix as the patch "ip_gre: remove the incorrect mtu limit for
ipgre tap" is also needed for ip6_gre.

Fixes: 61e84623ace3 ("net: centralize net_device min/max MTU checking")
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
@@ -1335,6 +1335,7 @@ static void ip6gre_tap_setup(struct net_
 
 	ether_setup(dev);
 
+	dev->max_mtu = 0;
 	dev->netdev_ops = &ip6gre_tap_netdev_ops;
 	dev->needs_free_netdev = true;
 	dev->priv_destructor = ip6gre_dev_free;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from lucien.xin@gmail.com are

queue-4.14/ip_gre-remove-the-incorrect-mtu-limit-for-ipgre-tap.patch
queue-4.14/ip6_gre-remove-the-incorrect-mtu-limit-for-ipgre-tap.patch
queue-4.14/ip6_tunnel-allow-ip6gre-dev-mtu-to-be-set-below-1280.patch
queue-4.14/vxlan-update-skb-dst-pmtu-on-tx-path.patch
queue-4.14/ip6_tunnel-get-the-min-mtu-properly-in-ip6_tnl_xmit.patch
queue-4.14/sctp-fix-the-issue-that-a-__u16-variable-may-overflow-in-sctp_ulpq_renege.patch